burining out a pci slot in the mother board...

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I'm no expert on motherboards, but I think that if your mobo is still working the rest of it is probably fine. I did have an experience however with a faulty motherboard which fried, and when it did it also burned out the circuits in my graphics card. If you haven't already, test everything else out to see if it works, and then you can probably assume yourself safe.

OMG! Well right after our vid card turned to crap and now doesn't work. I think it burned out the, umm...forgot name of thing, the part were the monitor cord hooks into the vid card. Cause the vid carded in general worked but the monitor thing didn't. :'(

OMG! Well right after our vid card turned to crap and now doesn't work. I think it burned out the, umm...forgot name of thing, the part were the monitor cord hooks into the vid card. Cause the vid carded in general worked but the monitor thing didn't. :'(

and how exactly did you determine that the card worked but the DB-25 connecter did not? It all depends on how it was fried and what went down. It's possible that you won't see any problems if the rest of it works, but random errors and other problems could creep up if other components were affected.

what are you talking about?? If the card doesn't work, the connector won't work. The connecter is just an interface between the cable connection and the electronics on the card. Your card is bad, not the connector.

You've been very unclear and I'm afraid we can't help until you give more details.